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Actual exam question from Google's Professional Cloud Security Engineer
Question #: 3
Topic #: 1
[All Professional Cloud Security Engineer Questions]

A customer needs an alternative to storing their plain text secrets in their source-code management (SCM) system.
How should the customer achieve this using Google Cloud Platform?

  • A. Use Cloud Source Repositories, and store secrets in Cloud SQL.
  • B. Encrypt the secrets with a Customer-Managed Encryption Key (CMEK), and store them in Cloud Storage.
  • C. Run the Cloud Data Loss Prevention API to scan the secrets, and store them in Cloud SQL.
  • D. Deploy the SCM to a Compute Engine VM with local SSDs, and enable preemptible VMs.
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Suggested Answer: B 🗳️

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FatCharlie
Highly Voted 3 years, 12 months ago
I guess this question was written prior to end of 2019, because Secret Manager is definitely the preferred solution nowadays. B is best of some bad options.
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HateMicrosoft
Highly Voted 3 years, 8 months ago
Gosh, clearly this is a very old question. Secret Manager is the answer. No matter what choices are there.
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3fd692e
Most Recent 1 month ago
Selected Answer: B
B is the only reasonable answer but be aware if on the test the question is updated and Secret Manager provided as an option.
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standm
1 year, 6 months ago
Secret manager should be used for Storing secrets. CMEK is used for Encrypting Customer data. Proverbial bad question IMHO!
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DevXr
1 year, 11 months ago
Selected Answer: B
B option would be the one
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shayke
1 year, 11 months ago
Selected Answer: B
b is the only choice
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hero0321
2 years, 1 month ago
B is the correct answer
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AwesomeGCP
2 years, 1 month ago
Selected Answer: B
B. Encrypt the secrets with a Customer-Managed Encryption Key (CMEK), and store them in Cloud Storage.
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GCP72
2 years, 3 months ago
The correct answer is B but Secret Manager is definitely the preferred solution.
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gcpgurus
2 years, 5 months ago
Secrets Manager is needed in answers
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Raghucs
3 years ago
Selected Answer: B
B is the best answer.
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saurabh1805
4 years ago
I would prefer secret manager but B is best possible option here.
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ArizonaClassics
4 years, 4 months ago
I agree with B
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KILLMAD
4 years, 8 months ago
Agree that the answer is B
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